the kitchen is the heart of thehome, then Stacy and MichaelMach’s 60-year-old Colonial-style house in Lincoln, Massa-chusetts, needed a transplant. Stacy, wholoves to cook, felt the room’s limitations mostacutely. “The galley kitchen was dark, and allthe appliances were squashed into one cor-ner,” she says. “It felt like wasted space.” Inaddition, contemporary floor-to-ceiling win-dows and doors from previ-ous renovations strivingfor a modern look causedtemperatures to fluctuateuncomfortably. “Too hot insummer, too chilly in winter,” says Stacy. “Itwasn’t cozy.”More important, the kitchen’s awkwardplacement in relation to adjoining rooms andin sight of the front door added to its dysfunc-tion for this growing family, which includes theMachs’ two sons, Chris, 13, and Ryan, 11, andtheir dog, Fuzzy.